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...painter of fat people," and his American soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came out of the heart," Botero told TIME. On a flight from Bogot?? to Paris last November, Botero saw an article on the abuses and was inspired to pull out his sketchbook. "I began drawing immediately, and when I got to Paris, I kept going," he says. Botero, 73, says artists have for too long abandoned warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's Guernica became...
HOSPITALIZED. Françoise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogot??, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema and cardiac weakness brought on by the altitude; she was flown home to France and remains under sedation in improving condition...
...Inside Bogot??'s imposing Palace of Justice last Wednesday morning, more than 500 people were going about their business as usual. Suddenly, the quiet in the capital's Bolívar Plaza was shattered by bursts of gunfire as some two dozen guerrillas streamed into the building from an underground garage. Armed with pistols and machine guns, the invaders quickly took over the five-story building, shooting their way to the fourth floor judicial offices, where they took more than a dozen Supreme Court judges hostage. M-19, Colombia's best-known terror group, had struck again...
...take long to reach B. William Mader, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogot??, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogot?? to join the TIME team. Unlike Mexico City immediately after its earthquake, Bogot?? had a functioning airport and telex and telephone lines were...
...Bogot??¡, a city where the dormant economy hurts as much as the violence from the civil war, a soccer tournament has taken a greater importance than tired peace talks. Because, however fleetingly, in Colombia soccer heals any wound...